An average movie

Wong Kar-wai  is another director who took his goddamned  time to finally release a new directing effort and this movie came 6 long years after his previous one. To be honest, when I heard about this project, I had some mixed feelings. I mean, seriously, after the impressive 'Yip Man', did we really need another biopic about the great martial-arts master? Eventually, even though it turned out to be fairly entertaining, I can’t say it really blew me away. Basically, as usual with this director, it was visually very neat, there was a nice soundtrack and, once again, Tony Leung gave a really solid performance. The biggest problem I had was with the story. In my opinion, it was all rather murky and, above all, I didn't really understand why they spent at least 1 third of the movie dealing with Ziyi Zhang's character. I mean, it was pretty obvious that she had a crush on Ip Man but he didn’t seem to share those feelings or to really care so much about her. Even the fighting scenes didn't completely work for me. Sure, they were pretty badass, no doubt about it, but there was too much slow-motion  and special effects involved so they slightly lost their impact in my opinion. To conclude, even though it turned out to be rather disappointing, it was still a decent watch and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you're interested in Wong Kar-wai's work.


6/10